Receipt and Unpacking tnstructions

The basic Model IibOU is shipped in two separate cartons: one contains the Sun Workstation video monitor on its pedestal, and the second contains a rack-mountable metal enclosure with the workstation card cage and power supply. Each subsystem ordered comes in its own carton - see the chapter Sub'II"em Set-up for unpacking instructions. You may also find yourself with a lew small boxes: the Sun System documentation is shipped in its own package, as are the brackets and power supply for the 169-MByte disk.

When you receive your shipment, inspect all shipping cartons immediately for evidence of dam-age. If any shipping carton i~ severely damaged, request that the carrier's agent be present w hen the carton is opened. If the carrier's agent is not present w hen a carton is opened and the contents are found to be damaged, keep all contents and packing materials for the agent's inspection.

The following two subsections deficribe how to unpack the Model 150U monitor and card cage enclosure. Mounting instructions for the card cage enclosure are also given.

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2.3.1. 150U Monitor - Unpacking

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1. To open the monitor's shipping carton, cut the binding straps on it with a knife or scissors.

The shipping carton is in the form of a square 'tube' with two lids on it, one on the bottom, and one on the top. The monitor is (:ilcased in styrofoam packing materials inside the lids.

2. Remove the top lid from the 'tube', and you will find the keyboard, the power cord, the dis-tribution tape(s), and an envelope containing manuals in the recesses in the top of the pack-ing material. Remove these item,.

3. Lift out the rubber and styrofoam packing material (the fit is fairly tight; try rocking it out). At this point you may find a mouse and mouse pad boxed and tucked along the side of the monitor; if you ordered an 84-MByte disk subsystem, these will be packed with it instead.

4. Remove the square 'tube⁷ trom its bottom lid. Don't try to lift the monitor out of the ship-ping carton: it's too heavy. When you remove the 'tube' from the bottom lid, the monitor is left standing in the bottom piece of packing material. Two people can then lift the monitor out of the bottom shipping material, remove the plastic wrapping, and place the monitor on its working surface.

We recommend that you save the salvageable shipping carton and packing material for future use in case the product must be reshipped.

2.3.2. 150U Card Cage Enclosure - Unpacking and Mounting

Note thot the ,hipping weight 01 the Model 150U enclo,ure ond it, ,hipping corton i, opprozi-motel" 60 pound,. The weight 01 the enclo,ure ibell i, obout 50 pound,.

1. Open the enclosure's shipping carton as you did the monitor's.

2. Remove the top lid from the shipping 'tube', and you will find a cardboard piece with the door for the enclosure; power cord; and extension keyboard, mouse, and video cables on it.

Take these items off and set them aside.

3. Pull up the cardboard and styrofoam packing material, and you will expose the unit, covered in plastic.

4. Remove the square 'tube' from its bottom lid. Don't try to lift the enclosure out of the ship-ping carton: it's too heavy. When you remove the 'tube' from the bottom lid, the unit is left standing in the bottom piece of packing material. Two people can then lift the enclosure out of the bottom shipping material, using the handles on its sides.

We recommend that you save the salvageable shipping carton and packing material for future use in case the product must be reshipped.

5. The MI50U enclosure comes supplied with a set of clips containing captive nuts, and a set of bolts for bolting the unit into a standard 19-inch rack. To mount the enclosure, clip the clips into the holes in the vertical metal rail in the rack. Then commandeer two cohorts to position the unit in the rack while you secure it by the bolts provided.

6. Lastly, slip the enclosure front door on. II you mount the unit with the door on, you run the risk of shearing off the front light and switch.

2.4. Set-up

The following subsections describe how to cable up your Sun Model 150U and its basic peri-pherals.

CA UTION: Before plugging in the power cord of any component of your Sun system, be sure that the line power supply voltage and frequency are as specified on the back panel of your workstation. Use only three-prong (grounded) outlets. Always disconnect power before opening any system enclosure or servicing any system component. All servicing should be performed by qualified personnel.

2.4.1. Keyboard and Mouse

The Sun keyboard should be plugged into the connector labelled "KEYBOARD" on the card cage back panel. if you wish to use the keyboard as your console input device (as is normally done) you must power-on the workstation AFTER plugging in the keyboard. The Sun resident PROM monitor will try to llse serial port A for input if it does not find an attached keyboard.

Plug the mouse into the "MOUSE" connector on the back panel.

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2.4.2. Ethernet

If you purchased a system with Ethernet, your system is shipped with the Ethernet Controller Board installed in your workstation's Multibus card cage. You will receive a package containing the transceiver and transceiver cable necessary to complete implementation of the Ethernet for a single workstation, and an Ethernet Oontroller Reference Manual. The coaxial cable necessary to implement a network with multiple machines may be purchased separately from Sun.

Setting up an Ethernet with all Sun-supplied components is fairly straightforward:

1. Terminate the 50-ohm coaxial cable by placing a transceiver at both ends. Screw the cable into the transceiver N-connectors; cover the open N-connector on each transceiver with a terminator. In lieu or a transceiver, you may terminate the cable with two barrel connectors and terminators. Handle the coaxial cable with some care, as it is fragile; don't run it in an area w here it may be run over.

2. For each workstation, plug one end of the transceiver cable into the IS-pin D-connector on the transceiver, and the other end into the "ETHERNET 10 MBIT" connector on the card cage enclosure backplane.

Please note that there are certain cabling limitations which must be observed for proper Ether-net implementation:

Table 2-4: Ethernet Cabling Limitations Ethernet Cabling Limitation8

MAXIMUM contiguous length of coaxial cable segments 500.0 meters

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MAXIMUM length of transceiver cable 50.0 meters

• Transceivers must be placed at 2.5 meter intervals along the coaxial cable. These intervals are marked on the cable with a black band. If you want to spread transceivers along a greater length of cable, make sure the distance between any two transceivers is a multiple of 2.S meters.

For more information, see t.he Ethernet manual shipped with your system. If you have ques-tions about repeaters or non-stardard Ethernet configuraques-tions, please contact Sun Microsystems.

2.4.3. Asynchronous Serial Ports

You may attach a terminal, modem, printer, plotter, or other device which uses the RS-232 interfaces, to one of the serial port connectors labelled "RS232 A" and "RS232 B" on the back panel.

NOTE that older workstations (shipped prior to the 1.0 Release) have serial port A configured as a DCE (Data Communications Equipment) and serial port B configured as a DTE. In addi-tion, only serial port A on the older workstations has full modem control. This means that external cables built for the Sun-lor Sun-I.5 CPU may have to be modified to work correctly with the Sun-2 CPU, or a null modem cable (such as that supplied by Sun) may be required.

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The serial ports on the Sun Workstation were designed primarily for connecting output peri-pherals, such as printers and plotters, and can drive these output lines at speeds up to 19.2 Kbaud. Both ports provide the CTS, RTS, DTR, DSR, and DCD control lines required by some devices (such as modems) in addition to the transmit and receive lines; the ports generate DTR and RTS, and pay attention to DSR, CTS, and DCD. Both ports are also wired as DTE (Data Terminal direct connection of modems. Computers and other DTE devices can be con-nected using the null modem cable supplied by Sun. See the A'1JRchronou, Ser'a.l Port, section of the Hardware Configuration and Ezpan,ion chapter for wiring specifications.

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